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Official's Comments |
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| Organiser |
Who booked the weather? Can they do
it for our next event, Salcey Forest. For me turning up to open the Assembly
area field to find it flooded with sheep. Ringing anyone's door bell at 07:30
any morning is done with care, then to carry on a conversation about the animals
through the walls was not a good start. The Sheep were moved out and we had an
empty field. Self Registration offers the club like SMOC an opportunity to
re-deploy manpower to other areas required by an event, even it was seen as a
low key event. To which ends I want to thank all the SMOCies who turned out to
run the event.
I am pleased so see so many people at the event who have yet to pledge their allegiance to one of the local Orienteering Clubs. For those who it was there first event I hope you enjoyed your introduction and we will see you at other events. The map has seen a lightening in the green stakes which bodes will for the future, we wait for a white forested map which our map and planner assures us is on the way. There appears to have been some hick up in the results which mainly seem to be linked to hiring of e-punches for second runs and some people's times were longer than the courses were open but the investigation is on going. Roger Williams |
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| Planner |
As
you probably noticed, the Forestry Commission felled the central part of the
woods prior to the event. They are also thinning out the hawthorn, which now
makes Bucknell a much more pleasant place to orienteer.
So, in the future, when we have remapped the southern part of the map as
well we should have a good Badge area to offer you. However, in the present, we had to make a new map in a hurry
for the event. I received no adverse comment and think we did a reasonable job
in the time available. The
felled areas were simply too dangerous for competition. Avoiding them and the
bulk of the residual hawthorn dictated the structure of the courses. However,
the spread of times, lack of many miss punches and pleasant comment from
finishers indicates that your day wasn’t too badly disrupted. I
received some good constructive comment from a couple of experienced planners.
Thank you for that. Experience is only of true value if it’s shared. A
thank you to the SMOC mapping team for helping to produce the map. And another
one to Steve Hardy and Karen Vines for controlling in an efficient but hassle
free manner. John Shaw
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| Controller |
In the first place
congratulations to John for not only producing a set of courses that took
you to the nicest parts of a rapidly improving forest but also for
updating the map. When John took on the task of planning he thought he
might need a few minor map revisions. In fact extensive an extensive
re-survey was required; hence the relative lack of ditches - there simply
wasn't time to map all that were there - John's option of only mapping
major ditches produced a consistent map though did effectively shoot
himself in his planning foot but missing out on many excellent control
sites.
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Last Updated - 20 November, 2003 |
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